Employment Visa Threat ? Part II
By Bill West
The March 29 CT Blog posting relating to the issue of employment based visas, particularly the “H” and “L” visas and the recent exceeding of the Congressional cap in the issuance of “H” visas by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, noted how these visas can be abused by hostile foreign intelligence services and terrorist organizations. On the heels of this post comes an excellent article published March 31 in FrontPage Magazine by Patrick Devenny, a Henry M. Jackson National Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, DC. The article, titled, “China’s Secret War,” describes in notable detail the ongoing PRC espionage efforts within and against the United States.
The espionage efforts Mr. Devenny describes include the utilization of an estimated three thousand “front companies” operating within the United States with links to Chinese Intelligence. These companies are often involved in the illicit transfer of technology, which is ultimately destined to China’s military.
Mr. Devenny notes the three thousand front company estimate comes from the senior command of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Division; therefore, presumably the information is reliable. One can only wonder how many “H” and “L” visa petitions have been filed by and approved for those three thousand companies over the years. Hopefully someone is bothering to look.
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